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A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never! (Bill McKibben)
May 24, 2011 (Washington Post) -- Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- May 25, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- May 25, 2011 May 20-Aug. 28 International Center of Photography, "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945." 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd St., New York. May 23-25 Non-Aligned ...
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Desperately Needed: A New Political Party (James Clay Fuller)
May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Count me among the growing number of people who believe support of the Democratic Party, as such, is not merely a waste of time but, worse, a deeply ...
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Rainbow Pie -- Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation (Morris Berman)
May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Given how much we had in common, it’s perhaps a bit odd that Joe Bageant (1946-2011) and I never met (although I think we did correspond at one point). ...
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Violent Arctic storm a climate-change ‘harbinger,’ study finds (Gloria Galloway)
May 16, 2011 -- OTTAWA (The Globe And Mail) -- The Inuvialuit living in the Mackenzie Delta of the Northwest Territories watched incredulously in September of 1999, as a particularly violent storm ...
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My life without gadgets (Chris Williams)
May 20, 2011 (Washington Post) -- I don’t have an iPad, and I have no intention of getting one. I don’t have an iPhone, either. Or any kind of smartphone. In fact, I don’t send or receive text ...
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Reagan insider: GOP destroyed U.S. economy, Part 2 (Paul B. Farrell)
May 24, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- “My G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy.” Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of ...
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Mountebank wins Nobel for infinite planet theory (Rob Dietz)
May 24, 2011 (The Daly News) -- Few people have read the dense volumes published by the economist Milton Mountebank, but his work has affected you, me and every single person on the planet. Dr. ...
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This Is What A Police State Looks Like (Rania Khalek)
May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The late Chalmers Johnson often reminded us that “A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can’t be both. If it sticks to ...
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Porn in the USA (Yvonne Ridley)
May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- I wonder what the US Administration makes of the idiom that includes the words pot, kettle and black. The reason for this recent musing comes from ...
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Osama bin Laden's Death: There Is Much More To Say (Noam Chomsky)
May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- On May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in his virtually unprotected compound by a raiding mission of 79 Navy Seals, who entered Pakistan by ...
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